Rig Arrived!

Hey everyone! What a busy last couple of weeks! Last week I worked hard building a ramp to be able to unload the truck when it and a foundation to put the shipping container on. I only had 3 days total to complete both these projects so I worked with the construction crew from morning to late in the evening using the lights of David's Landcruiser to work. Thankfully we finished on time. The rig arrived Thursday afternoon and with the help of some of the Bible school students, we unloaded the container and pulled it off the back of the truck onto the cement foundation. While this was a good day, it was also one of the most frustrating days I've had in Sudan. Unfortunately, the loaded the container onto a truck in such a way that it was impossible to pull it off the back. We had to take the truck to a place where they cut off a corner of the truck! There were many other problems that I won't get into, all I have to say is that I lost my voice for two days after that from yelling at the truck driver. Besides these frustrations, I'm very relieved and excited to have my equipment on Sudanese ground.

Besides being excited about the rig, I'm also excited about the progress of my compound. The house has a foundation and the walls have been raised to about waist level. We also had 200 wood poles and 80 bundles of bamboo poles delivered today which will be used to build a bamboo fence around the compound. I'm fairly confident that by the end of October I'll be living in my own house!

while building the house we hired some local women to carry jerrycans of water up from the stream to use for mixing cement. One thing I found amazing is that it only costs 150 Ugandan shillings per jerrycan of water. That's $0.09 per jerrycan! Talk about Cheap!

Well everyone, the generator is about to go off so I need to get going. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support. I'll update you all soon!